Snap-fastener.



PATENTED MAR. s, 1908.

W. s. RICHARDSON.

SNAP FASTENER.-

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30.1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, OF CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED STATES FASTENER COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

SNAP-FASTE NER Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed June 301 1906- Serial No. 324.169.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. RICHARD- SON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Canton, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Snap Fasteners, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to snap fasteners such as comprise a ball member to be permanently secured to one garment or flap and the socket member similarly secured to another garment or flap the two intended to be separably engaged and disengaged for the purpose of temporarily fastening the garment.

My improvements relate to certain novel features of construction the objects of which are to accomplish simplicity, durability and absolute looking or holding qualities.

I will first describe a fastener embodyin my invention and then point out the novdl features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings Fi ure 1 is a face view of the socket member loo liing toward the fabric to which it is secured. Fig.2 is a similar view of the containing disk or plate detached from the other parts. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View of the socket and stud members engaged with each other and suitably secured to fabric.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

My improved fastener comprises a stud member and a socket member, the latter consisting of a containing plate and a resilient stud catch.

A is a containing plate and it has a peculiar central opening. This opening is larger at one end than the other. Within the opening is intended to be inserted the stud catch which is capable of assumin difierent positions within the opening. when the stud catch is at the smaller end a of the opening in the containing plate its sides are so confined or bound as to prevent expansion. When, however, the stud catch passes to. the larger end a of the openin it is free to expand sufficiently to permit the passage of the stud. B represents the stud catch. It is elastic by reason of openings 6 vertically arranged in its sides and flange. The number of such openings is immaterial or their form.

sufficiently large to permit the necessary eX- panslon thereof.

The stud member C is of ordinary form. Both members are shown as provided with thread holes D by which they are sewed with needle and thread to the two flaps of a glove or other garment.

To connect the two flaps and thus secure the garment the bulbous head of the stud is forced through the central 0 ening of the stud catch B snapping into place and there yieldingly held by reason of the elasticity of the resilient sides of the stud catch. If a pull or draft should be applied to the two garment flaps the result would be to cause the stud catch B to slip from the larger end a of the opening in the containing plate A to its smaller end a and thereupon no amount of pull will suffice to accidentally disengage the two members. This positive locking arrangement is afforded by sewing the socket member to the fabric with the smaller end pointing toward the edge of the'fabric or to- Ward the other garment flap.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a garment fastener a stud member combined with a socket member the latter consisting of a containing plate having an opening longer than its width and smaller at one end than at the other; and a resilient stud catch engaged in said opening by reason of its enlarged portions above and below the containing plate, the stud catch capable of passing from the larger to the smaller end of said opening substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A garment fastener socket member comprising a containing plate having an opening longer than its width the said opening formed with a binding end and a free end; and a resilient stud catch held by its enlargements within said opening and adapted when the fastener is under strain to pass into the bind- In testimony whereof, I have signed my ing end of said opening whereby a positive name to this specification in the presence of 10 looking thereof is obtained. tWo subscribing Witnesses, on this 28th day 8. A snap fastener stud member oomprisof June A. D., 1906. 5 ing a plate provided with an elongated aper- WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON.

ture narrower near one end than near the Witnesses: other and a stud catch slidably mounted in F. H. BLISS,

said aperture and adapted to engage a stud. A. H. FLANNERY. 

